Dan Hannan on who really got the EU rebate…

“… ludicrously, we’re being told that we ought to be cheering because George Osborne has succeeded in halving the amount. No he hasn’t. All he has done is factored in the rebate which, as the European Commission has confirmed, was always going to apply anyway. If anyone halved the amount, it was Margaret Thatcher, who negotiated the rebate in 1984.”